DAY WITH THE POTTER

The LORD wants you to visit the POTTER!

"The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:  “Arise and go down to the POTTER'S HOUSE, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”   Jeremiah 18:1-2  MEV

Jeremiah visits the Potter and watches him make a clay vessel.

"Then I went down to the POTTER'S HOUSE, and there he was making something on the wheel. Yet the vessel that he made of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.  Jeremiah 18:3-4  MEV

God gives Jeremiah a prophecy to proclaim to his people to turn from their wicked ways or disasters will come.

"Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:  O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the Lord. As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.  At one moment I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it.  If that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to do to it.  Or at another moment I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it.  If it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would bless it."  Jeremiah 18:5-10  MEV

Now is the day of salvation.  Repent from you wicked ways!

"Now therefore speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Repent now, everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good."   Jeremiah 18:11  MEV

The people said, Who cares what God says; It's hopeless, we're just going to live our evil ways.

"But they say, “There is no hope! But we will walk after our own devices, and each of us will do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

Jeremiah 18:12  MEV (Modern English Version)